By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, February 28, 2026
The latest location where Trump has given the orders to murder people is Iran.
Remember a couple of months back when establishment U.S. lawyers and human rights groups were admitting that Trump’s attacks on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific were nothing other than murder?
Murder doesn’t cease being murder because it’s further away or grander or provokes a more dramatic response or targets victims who speak a different language.
By all means hunt in the Epstein files for evidence of Trump raping or murdering, but don’t pretend we don’t already know.
Did Trump have no choice but to start slaughtering people? The mediator said a deal was within reach.
The deal was a solution in search of a problem to begin with, given the absolute lack of evidence of the existence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program and the openly admitted possession of nuclear weapons by numerous other nations not being bombed, including the one currently sending missiles into schools in Iran.
Didn’t Trump need to murder people to prevent the Iranian government from murdering them? Hmm. Is more murder or more high-tech murder or more distant murder better? Should we pretend the people have not been protesting economic hardship largely created by illegal and murderous U.S. sanctions? Must we all conspire to act as if nonviolent activism does not exist? Are we really going to pretend Israel hasn’t demanded this crime — and provided a rotating selection of ludicrous excuses and frauds to justify it — for decades?
Public pressure helped prevent a U.S. war on Iran several times in recent decades, and helped create public opinion in the U.S. that as of the start of this war was more against such a war than ever, and more against such a war than against almost any other evil thing ever asked about in opinion polls.
So why did a war happen now?
One reason is of course that Trump is a psychopath with no qualms about acting on the most horrific advice given to him most recently.
A second reason is that there is no opposition party in Washington. Schumer and Jeffries, the “leaders” of the Democrats, actually prevented votes prior to the start of this crime on the War Powers Resolution ritual of redundantly declaring that this crime would be a crime.
A third reason is that there is almost no opposition among the governments of wealthy nations or in the United Nations.
A fourth reason is — depending on how you want to look at it — either the onslaught of numerous threats and crises from the Trumpoctopus wrecking ball targeting of Venezuela, Mexico, Minneapolis, Greenland, Canada, Russia, the natural environment, healthcare, etc., etc., or the established pattern of the people of the United States, their local governments, their state governments, the Congress, the media, and the two corporate political parties in the U.S. Congress failing to effectively stand up to any of these things with votes, impeachments, prosecutions, sit-ins, boycotts, or truth commissions.
A fifth reason is that you get what you pay for, and the institutions and television viewers of much of the world have collectively hallucinated military spending as a public good to be maximized at the expense of all that is useful or decent in the world.
Is all hopeless? Of course not.
What’s needed is obvious. But we have to be willing to do it. We have to stop picking which type of people to care about. We have to stop worrying about the risks. We have to all stand up together, no matter whom we’ve voted for or against, no matter what myths we’ve believed in the past, no matter what corner of the planet we live in, and work every nonviolent educational and media and activist angle to effectively demand NO MORE.
25 Responses
Atrocious behavior on the part of Israel & Trump! Killing girls in school?!!!
Trying to cause regime change by horrific violence! I’m ashamed to be a human.
STOP THIS ENDLESS WARMONGERING!
IMPEACH THE CRIMINAL WHO IS TRYING TO DESTROY THE WORLD D. TRUMP
Congress and the Supreme Court are responsible for this appalling behavior on the part of a pair of ruthless, depraved, wontedly destructive, and self-protective men. These so-called governing bodies need to take immediate action to stop Netanyahu and Trump from further compromising the future of humanity.
When I see my neighbors, I don’t see murderers. Yet collectively, through our petty fears and dislikes, we have elected people who pandered to those dislikes to achieve their own ends. And in this case those ends include murder and genocide. How can we awaken our hearts to make better choices? Collectively, those little choices are powerful.
The complacency of Americans and world leaders as a maniac destroys the planet makes me ashamed to be humans. Is this the best we can do?
US imperialism and the war machine need to be permanently defeated! Same for the criminal Zionist empire!
Finally, the USA got itself down to the same level as Israel.
Waging illegal war(s), killing civilians, bombing schools and gymnasiums and permanently thumping their chests!
I can only call it The Grand Cowardice!
When you attack a country that has not done anything to you while you have nukes and the attacked don’t and you have planes, where one of them costs more than the budget of a midsized town, – THAT is COWARDICE!
We have become the greatest cowards on earth! And- we seem to like it that way!
J’ai honte d’être occidentale, américaine (du continent, et non des États-Unis qui se sont arrogés le gentilé du continent entier) et canadienne. Tous les dirigeants de cette planète ou presque suivent Trump-Netanyahou comme des petits chiens de poche.
Ils mettent la planète à feu et à sang, mutilant et tuant des milliers de personnes innocentes. Tout ça pour servir les intérêts d’une caste d’oligarques Epsteiniens. Cette caste d’ultra-riches qui veulent toujours plus d’argent et de POUVOIR. Lire cette analyse éclairante sur le sujet https://theconversation.com/laffaire-epstein-revele-une-classe-au-dessus-des-lois-276554
Stop the senseless war! Get back to the negotiating table NOW!
United Nations STOP USA under Trump regarding for war!
Begin by defining war and then anybody violating or assisting in violating the exclusive authority of Congress to declare war would be incarcerated immediately, pending trial.
No war. Congress, lately M.I.A. , should by voice vote decide this. It is an unprovoked war. WW3 could be started because of a madman president
I’m totally against war and I believe national that starts these conflicts are war criminals and only out to steal land and resources while needlessly killing civilians
We seriously need to vote out everyone in congress or the senate who takes money from Israel.
Amazing that Trunp is trying to start the next war just to stop him being looked at in combination with the Epstean investigation & doesn’t care about killing thousands of people, going to war just so he will be remembered by the world no matter what
Why do we have a convicted criminal even be The President?
Section 4 of Article 2 of the Constitution of the United States reads as follows:
” The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanours.”
It is the failure of Congress to enforce the provision of the aforementioned Article that has brought about the impunity which has been enjoyed for far too long now, not only in the case of Donald Trump, but also his predecessors. The history of the administration of the United States over the last half century bears testimony to the fact that the USA is a rogue state which poses the greatest threat to the peace and security of humanity.
Until the provisions of your constitution are honoured and enforced to the letter, the present malaise will only persist.
The American people are in dire need of being properly informed and better educated as to their collective responsibility in saving the Republic from the grip of of Zionism which is the novel manifestation of a movement towards global fascism which must be eradicated in order that our species can survive.
STOP trump. IMPEACH, REMOVE, ARREST ON WAR CRIMES.
Stop bombing Iran!
If anyone believes this war was initiated to protect the world from Iran’s nuclear weapons,…. Or because the leaders of the US and Israel give a damn about the human rights of the Iranian people or stopping the “ brutal regime” …. Think again. And every world leader who does not condemn these actions needs to be reminded- look who we are dealing with, and how ” brutally” Israel and the US have recently behaved in their own countries as well as the world. Do we really want a world where these thugs get to make the decisions of who is in power where?! It’s about the oil! And power- if we don’t get a grip, there will be no world to try to dominate. Stop the lies and genuflecting. Bullies need limits and containment.
Stop murdering innocent people
I DONT WANT ANY WARS. IT DOESN’T SOLVE ANYTHING, IT KILLS INNOCENT PEOPLE AND THE ECONOMY. PLEASE FIGURE OUT A PEACEFUL WAY TO SOLVE PROBLEMS. STOP KILLING PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN, WHO DESERVE A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN AND HUNGER
War is not the solution, but negotiations and diplomatie!
Peace
P. Dump has committed Federal crimes in both of his terms. This is no exception. The Constitution of The United States of America states plainly, Congress has appropriation of all money for all programs, and the Act of War may only be declared by them, and no one else, including P. Dump.
CONGRESS,
DO YOUR JOB IMMEDIATELY!!!